Exo 15:1, The song of Moses, Miriam, and Israel on their deliverance; Exo 15:22, The people want water in the wilderness; Exo 15:23, The waters at Marah are bitter, they murmur, Moses prays, and sweetens the waters by God's direction; Exo 15:27, They encamp at Elim, where are twelve wells, and seventy palm trees.

a timbrel: Toph, in Arabic called duff or diff, and in Spanish adduffa, is the tabret used in the East; being a thin, broad, wooden hoop, with parchment extended over one side of it, to which small pieces of brass, tin, etc., are attached, which make a jingling noise. it is held up with one hand and beaten upon with the other, and is precisely the same as the tambourine.

Elim: This was on the northern skirts of the desert of Sin, and, according to Dr. Shaw, two leagues from Tor, and near 30 from Corondel, which he conjectures to be Marah, where there is a small rill, which is brackish. He found but nine of the wells, the other three being filled up with sand; but the 70 palm trees had increased into more than 2,000. Num 33:9; Isa 12:3; Eze 47:12; Rev 7:17, Rev 22:2